The Arizona sentinel., 1887-08-13
NUMBER 37.

the edges of the open mouth of the sacl to the blanket between the tusks. and two pie-plant leaves sewed on for ear, lent animation to his expression.
 And now came Gscussion concern, ing the nearly forgotten tail. But none of the boys rememberedwhat kind oi tail elephants have, and so they made this one of the small trunk of dead peach tree. and tied to the end of it bunch of rooster's tail feathers.
 Willie's four guests were to serve as legs; but it occurred to them that So deserving an elephant should have driver, and Willie went to the house in search of materials for an appropriate garb. He came back successful, and ere long was robed in his aunt Nancy's night dress, alarmingly festooned, and had about his head for a turban wide strip of her red and white blazing-star patchwork. He would have had his face blackened too, but that he feared he might soil the turban.
 Then, bending. the four boys placed themselves under the elephant, one at each corner, and raised him up. and the two hindmost carried aloft his tail in their heads-a tail that could wag with pleasure or lash the air in wrath Then he moved of, in all the glory of war-paint and feathers; but there came from within him merry sounds as if possibly his joints squeaked, and some how he couldn't keep step. After little, however, he ambled smoothly, and then, alas! Aunt Nancy came home.
 The elephant was prowling along the side of the house in digniied silence, and she, coming along the front, turned the corner, and, with the blind ing glare of the sinking sun in her eyes, came upon him face to face She didn't wait to look twice; she turned and fled, and never paused till she was in the house, with the door locked. Then, when she had bathed her fore head and recovered somewhat from her fright, she looked out at the crea- ture through the shutters; and as she watched it wend its way in and out among the trees she slowly reached the conclusion that it was homemade; and soon she saw Willie, with his hat full of apples, walk fearlessly up to it.
 Now it is humiliating to woman to reflect that she has had her feelings wrought up about nothing; and besides this, Aunt Nancy recognized her night dress and her patchwork, and it is lit tie wonder that indignation burned in her bosom.
 Willie, when he had brought the ap- ples, gave each boy three, and then modestly suggested that sometimes the driver rides on the elephant Why, of courser' all the boys said, with their mouths full of apple and their hearts full of misgiving; and Willie, climbing up on the fence, settled himself eau tiously upon the elephant, and drove proudly away to the old apple-tree by the kitchen door. Once upon time he had placed board in the crotch of this tree for a seat, and this forenoon Aunt Nancy, melting some maple sug- ar, had set pail of the sirup upon the seat to cool, covering it with wire screen, and then had forgotten it
 And now very sad thing happened.
 The elephants hind leg, which was barefooted, stepped on a sharp stick, and stooping to clasp its foot in it's hand, inspired the corner of the body to drop suddenly few inches, so that Willie, throwing up his arm in nasty effort to keep his balance, caught his finger under the edge of the screen, and overturned the sirup upon his devoted hand.
 He didn't say any thing for minute or two. He wiped the sirup out of his eyes with his sleeves, and reached out his tongue and caught streams of it, and looked draggled, and the elephant moved away.
 But Aunt Nancy had seen, and she rose and came forth; and just as Will lie was informing the boys that he was drenched with molasses, and didn't know what he would do, he saw her. It was an awful moment; but he calico, softly: Boys! boys! here comes Aunt Nancyr' And the boys heard and fed not straight ahead, grieve to say, and all together, but in any direction that presented itself, and the body fell down upon the ground, ruin. with IV,II;o ba ,a.def
 Aunt Nancy seized upon him, and holding him with firm grasp on his stripped him of his Oriental dress; and the boys, watching through the hedge, saw her lead him away from the scene of his downfall and toward the pump, and wondered if she meant to drown him or only wash his face Isabel FreelGnd, iTs Harper's Young People.